pragmaticstudio.com Archives - 18 April 2013, Thursday

We just finished filming our online Rails course based on Rails 4! By popular demand, the format is the same as our online Ruby course . It's like having your own personal Studio. Look for it by end of the month or

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If you learn Ruby, you can master Rails. Are you using Rails but find yourself getting stuck, or even bogged down? Do you want to really get the most out of Rails? The secret to using the Rails framework effectively is to learn the Ruby programming language. And here's the best part: ...

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If you learn Ruby, you can master Rails. Are you using Rails but find yourself getting stuck, or even bogged down? Do you want to really get the most out of Rails? The secret to using the Rails framework effectively is to learn the Ruby programming language. And here's the best part: ...

Learn how to create full-featured iOS apps from scratch in this comprehensive 4-day, hands-on training course taught by two renowned iOS experts. This course has been redesigned to cover the latest iOS 6.0 SDK. Learn how to use the tools and APIs in the latest iOS SDK, and how they al...

Tracking down the definition of the update method seems easy enough. Given that we have all the Rails source files, we can just run a quick search for occurrences of def update . Trouble is, with that broad of a search you end up sifting through around 50 matches across 37 files. But ...

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Jim Weirich, one of our instructors, is teaching a Rails course for a client of ours in snow-drifted Boston this week. He'll also be the impromptu speaker at the Boston Ruby Group tonight. Jim always seems to be happily hacking away on an interesting project in his spare time, and att...

In the course material for our Ruby , Rails , and iOS courses, we like to include a one-page list of editor shortcuts we're likely to use during the live-coding sections. It's always fun (and rewarding) for folks to learn a few handy shortcuts as the course progresses without having t...

I was recently updating an example Rails 3 app to Rails 4, and was curious what had changed in terms of the default files and directories. There's always at least one small tweak to an environment file that I'm afraid I'll miss. To spot the differences, I generally use a command-line ...

Learn how to build high-quality web apps—quick and clean—from two renowned Rails experts in this comprehensive 3-day, hands-on training course. This course covers the latest Rails 3.2. Learn how to use the core features of Rails 3, and put them all together to build dynamic web applic...

iOS 4 introduces one new feature that will fundamentally change the way you program in general: blocks. Blocks are an extension to the C language and thus fully supported in Objective-C. If you're coming from a programming language such as Ruby, Python, or Lisp, then you know the powe...